Brepols Online Books Medieval Miscellanea Collection 2020 - bob2020mime
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Epirus Revisited. New Perceptions of its History and Material Culture
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Epirus Revisited. New Perceptions of its History and Material Culture show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Epirus Revisited. New Perceptions of its History and Material CultureThe opening of the borders of Albania in the 1990s stimulated an increased interest in its cultural heritage and led to extensive research, as well as archaeological investigations. These, however, have mainly concentrated within Albania's present-day borders and have lacked broader contextualization. Very recent excavations in Greece, which resulted from the construction of the new Ionia Odos highway, have, however brought to light unexpected and interesting material that changes our image of the monumental topography and the settlements in Epirus. New studies concerning Epirus and its broader connections during the early and later Ottoman periods provide a broader impression of the region and its relationships with the large economic centres of the West, as well as with the spiritual-religious and political centres of the Balkans.
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Episcopal Power and Personality in Medieval Europe, c. 900–c. 1480
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Episcopal Power and Personality in Medieval Europe, c. 900–c. 1480 show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Episcopal Power and Personality in Medieval Europe, c. 900–c. 1480The question of personality is a problematic one, beset by complications of cultural distance, the layers of the past, and the limitations of the source material.
Recognising these difficulties, this volume draws together character sketches based upon historical narratives and a range of sources, including architecture, liturgical manuscripts, chronicles, and hagiographical material, to show a multifaceted range of means by which historians can construct, reconstruct, and deconstruct episcopal power through the person of the bishop.
Building on a previous volume of essays, Episcopal Power and Local Society in Medieval Europe, 900-1400, which examined the construction, augmentation, and expression of episcopal power in local society, this second volume seeks to uncover the impact of the personalities behind that power. Through essays dealing with the construction of cultural and political personalities, the shadows they cast, and the contexts that forged them, this volume brings to life the careers of bishops across medieval Europe from c. 900 to c. 1480. This geographical range and broad time span throws up the similarity in applications and bene ts of interdisciplinarity which can be applied to ecclesiastical history, and presents a fascinating range of case studies for consideration.
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